WE HAVE already shown in "Tabernacle
Shadows of the Better Sacrifices" that
Israel's "Day of Atonement" of old typified
this Gospel Age and the blessings to follow
--in the Millennium; that now is the
sacrificing time--from Jesus' baptism until
His second advent in glory, and that then
will come the time for the general application
of the merit of the antitypical "better
sacrifices" to mankind under the New Covenant.
And we have also seen that the faithful Sacrificer
(Head and Body) will be the great antitypical Mediator
between God and mankind in general.

Our readers have fully in mind also that the call of
this Age is for sacrificers only--to follow our Redeemer's
footsteps of self-denial, even unto death. This was our
Lord's proposal: "Whosoever shall lose his life for my
sake, shall find it." (Matt. 10:39.) St. Paul reiterated
and expounded this saying, "I beseech you, brethren, by
the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies living
sacrifices, holy and acceptable to God," for "If we suffer
with Him we shall also reign with Him."--Rom. 12:1;
2 Tim. 2:12.

APOSTLE SHOWS TYPE AND ANTITYPE MOST BEAUTIFULLY

St. Paul directly associates the sufferings of the
Church with the sufferings of the Redeemer, and both
with the "better sacrifices" of the Day of Atonement.
He says, pointing back to the type, "Let us go to Him
outside the camp, bearing His reproach." (Heb. 13:11-15.)
Here the Apostle refers to the fact that as our Lord
Jesus fulfilled the antitype of the "bullock," we should
fulfil the antitype of the "Lord's goat" of the Day of
Atonement. As the "bullock" was slain, so our Lord fulfilled
that feature by the consecration of His life to death
at His baptism. As the "bullock's" body (except the fat
and the blood) was then dragged outside the camp and
burned, so our Lord suffered shame, ignominy, destruction
of the flesh, to accomplish the antitype.

Likewise we, who have accepted the call of this
Age ("Gather together my saints unto Me, those who
have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice"), should fulfil
the antitype of the Lord's goat. As the body of that
"Lord's goat" passed through the same experiences as
those of the "bullock," so we should, like our Lord, first
make a full covenant of sacrifice and then fulfil the burning
of the flesh of the Lord's goat by suffering shame,
ignominy and revilings, even unto death. Only those
who thus suffer with the Redeemer for righteousness'
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sake will reign with Him as the Royal Priesthood of the
Millennium.

SCAPE-GOAT CLASS FAIL TO BEAR "HIS REPROACH"

The "scape-goat" shows a class which, after making
consecration and being accepted and spirit-begotten, refuse
or neglect to "go to Him outside the camp bearing
His reproach"--even unto death. This class does not repudiate
the Redeemer, nor "the blood of the Covenant
wherewith they were sanctified." As the "scape-goat"
remained tied at the door of the Tabernacle, so these in
antitype remain loyal, outwardly, to their consecration,
but bound--as the Apostle declares, "who through fear
of death were all their life time subject to bondage."

The Lord will "deliver" these, however, but not to the
glory, honor and immortality which He will bestow upon
the class antityping the Lord's goat. Their deliverance
will mean tribulations, which will test their loyalty by
forcing them into the "wilderness" of sorrow, disappointment,separation. They may suffer just as much
tribulation as the Lord's goat class as they go unto death.
The difference is that one class endures willingly, voluntarily,
joyfully, while the other endures under compulsion
of circumstances; or, failing so to endure, is cut
off in the Second Death, and is not represented in the
experiences of either of those goats.

Some erroneously think of the two goats as representing
two different classes from start to finish. Not so;
they represent the finished classes only--those who "sin
wilfully" (Heb. 6:4-8and 10:26,27) being entirely ignored,
because they fail entirely and go into the Second
Death.

THE END OF THE RACE FULLY REVEALS OUR POSITION

Until the finish it may not be known where any of
those consecrated to sacrifice may terminate their race.
"Ye are called in one hope of your calling"--the hope that
we may be of the Lord's goat class. Some for a time
may appear to be fulfilling the part of the Lord's goat,
but later they may "become weary and faint in their
minds" and seem to fulfil the experiences typified in the
"Scape-Goat;" yet eventually they may allow pride or
some other form of selfishness to quench the Holy Spirit
whereby they were sealed and may be dropped entirely
from the favor of God and treated as His enemies--
and be destroyed in the Second Death.

On the other hand, many are so slow of development,
so slow to be quickened by the Lord's Spirit to sacrifice
for the Truth or for righteousness' sake, that it may for
years appear as though they would belong to the "scape-goat"
class. Yet later some of these receive the
light of Truth more clearly and by their noble self-sacrifices
apparently show that they finish the race as members
of the Lord's goat class.

Nothing is determined or fixed in respect to any of
us until our tests have all been passed. St. Paul, after
having sacrificed much, after having experienced many
sufferings of Christ as a tentative member of the Lord's
goat class, and even after being honored of the Lord as
a special mouthpiece, wrote: "I keep my body under (in
subjection to the new will and its consecration to sacrifice),
lest after having preached to others I myself might
be a castaway."--I Corinthians 9:27.

Brethren, the Lord's goat's experiences are the type of
what the Lord would have fulfilled in us if we would attain
the crown of glory, the honor and the immortality
promised to the faithful--the Bride class. There will
indeed be a secondary class of "virgins" who foolishly
hold back from sacrificing their little all, and who consequently
will fail to become members of the Bride of the
Lamb. These, after demonstrating an inferior loyalty,
will follow the Bride into scenes of glory as her honored
servants. (Psalm 45:14.) These are represented in the
scape-goat.

If any reader realizes that he has not been zealously
and voluntarily suffering with his Savior, laying down
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time and strength, reputation and life in His service
he is realizing his danger of being counted in
as one of the scape-goat class, or worse. Such
should quickly arouse himself or herself and appeal
in prayer to the Master for grace and faith to walk in His
steps of voluntary sacrifice. He should also seek to "arm
himself with the same mind" that the Lord had by studying
afresh the "exceeding great and precious promises"
of God's Word. He should at once "Lay aside every
weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset (whichever
weakness may be his special besetment) and run
with patience the race set before him" in the gospel--
the narrow way. He should indeed, Look unto Jesus, the
Author of our faith, who is also to be the finisher of it.
He should consider Him lest he be weak and faint in his
mind and thus fail to be an overcomer.--Heb. 12:1-3.

"It does not matter what it means, poor heart,
The dear Lord knows, to bear it is your part;
Nor think some strange thing happens unto you
Which He would not allow so if He knew.
He does know. In His all-wise Fatherhood
He knows it, and allows it for your good.
He is not hard; you do not think He is
When in the dark you find your Hand in His;
When it was light you tried to walk alone,
And thought the strength He gave you all your own.

"You did not ask what that last blessing meant;
Just smiled and took it, satisfied, content.
You did not think it strange. You thought He knew
And planned the sweet surprise which came to you.
Tried one, then do you take life's sweet and good,
Yet cannot trust that tender Fatherhood,
But think it makes mistakes whene'er it sends
Some hindrance which your eager haste offends?

"Or when He lets the wicked plot you harm,
And stir a whirlwind when you seek a calm,
You think it strange, this trial swift and keen,
And in your weakness ask, 'What does it mean?'

"I think the language of God's heart would read:
'I love My child, I note his slightest need;
I long to prosper him in all his ways,
To give him quiet nights and peaceful days,
But if I do, he'll lose himself from Me,
My outstretched hand he will not wait to see;
I'll place a hindering wall before his feet;
There He will wait, and there we two will meet.

"I do it not in wrath for broken laws,
Or wilful disobedience, but because
I want him nearer, and I cannot wait
For him to come, for he might wander late.
My child will wonder, will not understand,
Still half in doubt he'll clasp My outstretched hand;
But when at last upon My heart he leans
He will have ceased to wonder what it means.'"